Eric Berlin says:

Um, how do you know that call was made by the Allen campaign?

gnomic says:

Its widely reported (unless you watch the RNC propoganda channel) that they are pulling out all the stops to prevent turnout in districts that do not favor them.

Why this behavior doesn’t count a treason eludes me.

gnomic says:

More details: http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/07/repeat-robocalls-suck-blame-the-gop/#comments

I hope some deserving jerk goes to jail for the robo calls. When my mother was dying of cancer, one kept jamming her line so she couldn’t call me. Luckily, a nurse showed up with a cell phone.

Anyone who doesn’t think that its about these scumbags seizing power at the expense of our Democracy needs to quite blaming the media, activist judges, abortionists and gay flag burners and take a hard look at this group and its tactics. America is not about telling everyone how to live, its about living with the responsibility of freedom and having respect for the process of democracy. Once they destroy the process, they have fulfilled the terrorist goals of destroying America.

The Albatross says:

Pimping for KOS now? Geeze Andy at least you could have whipped up an article or at least an editorial for such a snappy story.

*Yawn*

If you aren’t interested enough to sniff out the story, I’m not interested either. I’m especially not interested to see you sniffing Kos’ tail.

Leland says:

Actually Andrew, Albatross stole my thunder. The Daily Kos is journalism like the tabloid that has a picture of Elivs, JFK, Big Foot, an alien or some combination of those on the cover every week.

Gnomic is partially right, the person responsible needs to go to jail. But so far no one has shown a link between any official with any campaign or party and this call. I would guess it’s some right wing crack pot doing it on his or her own.

Andrew says:

Um, it’s more than Kos. It’s been all over, in fact. From the AP story:

RICHMOND, Va. - The FBI said Tuesday that it is looking into complaints that callers tried to intimidate or confuse Virginia voters in the hard-fought race between GOP Sen. George Allen and Democratic challenger Jim Webb.

State Board of Elections Secretary Jean Jensen said her office had forwarded several reports to the FBI of voters receiving phone calls intended to discourage them from voting or directing them to the wrong polling place.

If you don’t think it was Allen’s campaign, the alternative is that some unaffiliated people somehow had access to the voter information that the parties use to contact people, then made systematic calls to likely Webb voters to try to trick them into not voting.

Methinks Occam wouldn’t go for that explanation.

The Albatross says:

Oh. Okay then… it’s been all over, but it still isn’t worth giving it enough of your own special journalistic t-k-o to bother to make the hyperbole your own.

Too bad. So sad. You are part of the problem rather than a responsive and responsible part of the solution. Part of the yuck yuck yuck it up squad out for their sound byte success rather than either being informative, impassioned, or investigative.

The Albatross says:

Oh. Okay then… it’s been all over, but it still isn’t worth giving it enough of your own special journalistic t-k-o to bother to make the hyperbole your own.

Too bad. So sad. You are part of the problem rather than a responsive and responsible part of the solution. Part of the yuck yuck yuck it up squad out for their sound byte success rather than either being informative, impassioned, or investigative.

The Albatross says:

Ack. Excuse me… a case of cyber hiccups (obviously).

Leland says:

I remember a prank by two high school students armed with nothing more then a telephone that had half the people in Broomfield, CO believing there had been an accident at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant. It worked beautifully and caused a great panic. The only reason they got caught was too much bragging around the high school.

One person armed with the right phone list, a caller ID blocked line (or worse yet, a spoofed caller ID line) and nothing better to do could crank out 20 - 30 calls per hour.

I agree that Occam may not by it. However until someone is busted for it, you and I can’t say for sure.